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The issue of what eighteenth-century European thought contributed to the concept of liberty, and what it inherited from previous centuries inspired a colloquium of scholars of the eighteenth century from across the globe, held in Warsaw in September 2002. This book seeks to present the problems they analysed. The participants considered yarious aspects of the problem of freedom, in a variety of countries, and even different cultural spheres. This gave a surprisingly rich picture, that showed not only how freedom was treated in the acknowledged centres of Enlightenment thought, but also in places, either beyond its reach, or where it arrived late. |
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